New Year's Day itinerary in Umbria

Have you ever thought of spending a New Year's Day different than usual, perhaps on the road?
Today we propose a route for the 2011 New Year's Eve to the discovery of Umbria with our tips for discovering the best of this region during the transition to the new year.
Sit back, prepare your bags, book countryhouse in Umbria and begin our journey.
It starts from Perugia, the capital city of the region, where between Christmas markets, street performers and many college students can discover the charm of the old town walking through the narrow medieval streets to discover corners very suggestive of a lovely city.
Going up to the high Umbria, Lake Trasimeno are small with its ancient villages where the New Year is colored reflections of the fireworks over the water, these days you have the chance to discover the sounds of one of Gospel's most important festivals in Italy, the Umbria Gospel Festival, which will accompany the transition to the new year with the great artists of the international gospel scene

Going to the south we come to Gubbio, where the New Year is celebrated in the square, the "Piazza Grande in New Year's Eve event ... waiting for the New Year" sponsored by the town of Gubbio offers a program rich with an evening of live music and shows the streets of the old town with the traditional sound of the bell.
We now move to the province of Terni, where the appointments are so many New Year 2012: Umbria Jazz Winter begins with the show of Orvieto with Happy New Year! Funk Off on Stage, the New Year's Day discovering Marmore Waterfalls, the highest waterfall in Europe and the New Year's Day in many villages of Valnerina, where tradition and folklore come together into a spectacular New Year's Day.

The occasions eg spend New Year's Eve 2012 in Umbria are many, and if you have not yet chosen your destination, try searching through the many last minute to stay that offers Umbria.

Lake Trasimeno: the blue heart of Italy

For nformation on tourism in the Lake Trasimeno, you can visit the page dedicated to Lake Trasimeno with news, informations, b&b, holiday farms and Trasimeno hotels .

THE LEGEND
The legend talk about the son of the king Tirreno, Prince Trasimeno. One day, from his camp, he saw a nymph bathed, Agilla. The prince fell in love immediately of nymph and between the two became an overwhelming love that ends with their marriage. The morning next the wedding, the prince Trasimeno decided to swim in the lake. Agilla saw him dive into the lake but it sucks in its water and he disappeared forever.

From that day Agilla was to wait for his beloved, constantly searching but to no avail. Agilla ended his days on a boat in the center of the lake, where controlled all boats to search for the face of his lost love.
It is said that even today, in the summer when the wind blows from Tuscany, you hear the cry of the nymph who calls his beloved.

THE ISLANDS
Throughout the history of Lake Trasimeno also had other names: Cliton, Agillino, Plestina, Lake of Perugia, Lake of Castiglione.
Lake Trasimeno, with an area of 128 square kilometers and a circumference of 45 kilometers, and, by extension, is the largest in mainland Italyand fourth in the country.
Of tectonic origin, Lake Trasimeno has a laminar depth of 6 m. about. And 'fed by several streams, by ditches.
Since no natural emissaries saw an attempt at regulation by Romans, who dug the first artificial outlet to which it was added a second to the late nineteenth century. On the banks of the lake on three sides overlooking the hills covered by olive.

Umbria tourism: eco tour between wine and oils

From June 2010 there 'one more reason' to visit Umbria and farm holiday Umbria: the eco-tour of Monte Vibiano and discover the secret of oil and famous wines in the world, while enjoying breathtaking scenery. Visits to the farm are free and conducted entirely on-board electric vehicles, in line with the company environmental policy, the first agricultural emissions to zero.

From June 2010 Monte Vibiano launched the "Green Wine Bar, a unique structure of ecological design in which the wines are served at zero emissions Vibiano Mountain, located a few meters from the winery business.

  

Nestled in the beautiful countryside in central Umbria, the Green Wine Bar 'is a fine marriage between design and nature, inspired entirely recyclable materials and designed by Monte Carlo Maryam Shams, Monte Vibiano wife of CEO Lorenzo Fasola Bologna.

  

Maryam, who has to his credit a collaboration with Philippe Starck - one of the most 'acclaimed designer in the world - has built a long bar of chestnut and used hundreds of corks that lay unused, kept for years in the historic cellars of Castello di Monte Vibiano.

  

"My goal was to recycle old wood and make them into something completely different. I really enjoyed transforming the old barrels in modern bar tables," says designer.Il wall 'painted mosaic composed of hundreds of slices recycled wood. The inspiration for the design of the wall and I 'came Persian art, "says Maryam.

  

The power for lighting and 'provided by photovoltaic solar panels, the same Monte Vibiano that help a company to remain at zero emissions. "

  

Mount Vibiano and 'the first Italian agricultural and one of the first world to have a negative balance of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the international ISO14064. At the end of 2008 the company produced -700 tons of CO2, as the certifying Scandinavian DNV certificate.

  

The Green Wine Bar 'is a unique place to sip fine wines in the quiet and green surroundings, to be chosen for a special occasion or the end of a long day of work.

In Italy grows "green" tourism

Is significant, between lovers holiday in contact with nature, the presence of young people between 16 and 30 years are as much as 23.2% while for the host structures to be favored over traditional holidays are farms, selected from more than 20 percent of holiday green. The green holiday was often combined with local food and wine in Italy thanks to the presence of more 'wide variety' of tourist routes linked to wine routes with 142 wines and savor the flavors along which many typicality 'of the territory and beyond to more 'than 18000 farms, in Italy are "open to the public" to buy food and wine 63000 mills, wineries, dairies and farms but also hundreds of farmers' markets Countryside friend.

The beautiful country can 'count on European leadership in organic production and offering traditional products with 206 well-recognized designations of origin at Community level and 4,471 specialty' traditional census regions, while there are 498 wines with denomination of origin (DOC ), and guaranteed (DOCG) and IGT (320 wines DOC, DOCG 41 and 137 IGT).